Robin Hood’s Wild Forest Slot Review
Gold coins spill from open chests across a mossy forest floor, burlap sacks heaped beside a timber cabin while light filters down through the canopy. This is a hideout that has done well out of robbing the rich, and Robin Hood’s Wild Forest takes the same attitude to its features: there’s no free spins round to save up for, because Red Tiger has handed everything to three outlaw wilds who hijack the base game instead. Few 5×3 games put this little into bonus rounds and this much into ordinary spins.
The grid is a 5×3 with 10 win lines paying left to right, the RTP runs at 95.73%, and the win cap is a calculated 1,003x the bet, with stakes from 0.10 to 50. It sits in the studio’s catalogue alongside Wild Wild Chest and Reel Heist, which put a single mascot to work where this one spreads the job across three.
Ten Win Lines and a Generous Wild
Wins pay on adjacent reels from the leftmost side, across ten fixed and numbered win lines. There’s no scatter and no separate bonus symbol; the character wilds carry that load. The wild substitutes for all paying symbols, and each character version also triggers its own feature the moment it lands, which makes it the busiest symbol on the grid.
The wilds come in four guises: Maid Marian, Little John, Robin Hood and a plain heart icon. Every version behaves the same as a substitute, but the three characters each bring their own feature with them, and a heart wild fills lines without setting anything off.
The paytable splits into four premium symbols and five royals, and the wild pays at the very top of it, matching the Lion line for line:
- Lion – 3 pays 3x, 4 pays 10x, 5 pays 30x
- Treasure/Coins – 3 pays 2x, 4 pays 5x, 5 pays 15x
- Boot/Quiver – 3 pays 1.5x, 4 pays 3x, 5 pays 8x
- Mug/Tankard – 3 pays 1x, 4 pays 2x, 5 pays 5x
- A – 3 pays 0.5x, 4 pays 1x, 5 pays 2x
- K – 3 pays 0.4x, 4 pays 0.9x, 5 pays 1.8x
- Q – 3 pays 0.4x, 4 pays 0.8x, 5 pays 1.6x
- J – 3 pays 0.3x, 4 pays 0.7x, 5 pays 1.4x
- 10 – 3 pays 0.3x, 4 pays 0.6x, 5 pays 1.2x
- Wild – 3 pays 3x, 4 pays 10x, 5 pays 30x
Hit frequency sits at 27.46%, so roughly one spin in four connects somewhere. With the top line paying 30x, the base paytable on its own isn’t where the money lives. The character features are the engine of anything approaching the 1,003x cap.
Maid Marian
When the Maid Marian symbol lands she blows kisses across the reels, adding random wilds. She may then blow again, adding more, and any win lines formed are paid once after the feature finishes running. It’s the simplest of the three effects, and the one most likely to quietly complete a line the spin had missed.
Because the kisses can repeat, the number of wilds she drops isn’t fixed. A single kiss can turn a near miss into a five-of-a-kind; several in a row can scatter wilds across more than one line at once, and all of it is settled in one payment at the end rather than win by win.
Little John
Little John smashes the ground and destroys every low-paying symbol on the reels, so only premium symbols can land in the gaps. Win lines formed before the smash pay out immediately. After that, wins pay after each activation of the feature.
Randomly, after paying, he can smash again. The second smash destroys everything that isn’t part of a win line and isn’t a wild, clearing the board further for another drop of premium symbols.
The escalation is what makes him dangerous. A single smash leaves a royals-free board; a second one strips out everything idle, and the premium-only symbols that refill it can stack lines the first drop missed.
Robin Hood
The title character fires arrows at a random premium symbol, locking it in place and triggering a respin. Character symbols and any wilds Maid Marian has added lock too. If new symbols of the locked type land, they lock as well and the respins continue, building towards a full screen of the same premium symbol.
There’s a mercy clause built in. In a respin where no symbols of the locked type land, Robin Hood may shoot again and add one or more of them himself, keeping the round alive. Wins are paid once no more symbols of the locked type appear.
This is the feature with the real ceiling on it. A screen of locked Lions at 30x a line is where that 1,003x figure becomes reachable, and the respins are the only mechanic in the game that can build a grid one symbol at a time.
When the Outlaws Work Together
More than one character can land on a single spin. When that happens, their features run consecutively in a fixed order: Maid Marian first, then Little John, then Robin Hood. The sequencing matters more than it looks.
Marian’s wilds lock during Robin’s respins, and Little John’s clearing hands Robin a board already stripped of royals, so the third feature often starts from a stronger position than it could have reached alone. Stacked Lion symbols make an appearance on the reels too, and a few locked Lions early in a respin chain can snowball quickly.
Running in that fixed order also means nothing is wasted. Marian’s wilds survive into the smash and the respins rather than paying out and vanishing, and John’s second smash can hand Robin a board where the only symbols left are winners, wilds and locked premiums – exactly the ingredients his respins feed on.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.2/10
Playing this is like loitering in a rich outlaw’s camp: nothing much happens for stretches, and then one of the gang turns up and the whole board gets redistributed. The reason to pick it is that rhythm – every spin carries the possibility of a feature, because there’s nowhere else for the game to hide one.
Its best trick is the way the three features feed each other. Marian’s wilds survive into John’s smash and Robin’s respins, so a double or triple character landing doesn’t just run two bonuses, it compounds them. The cost is the ceiling: 1,003x is a modest cap, and the paytable underneath it doesn’t stretch far on its own.
This suits players who want action in the spin itself rather than a bonus round to grind towards. Chasers of five-figure max wins won’t find their outlaw here. For everyone else, the forest is generous with company, even if the treasure chest has a lid on it.
Robin Hood’s Wild Forest FAQs
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What is the RTP of Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
The RTP is 95.73%. -
What is the hit frequency of Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
Roughly one spin in four connects, with a hit frequency of 27.46%. -
What do the character symbols do in Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
Each character triggers its own feature when it lands. Maid Marian adds random wilds, Little John destroys all low-paying symbols so only premiums can land, and Robin Hood locks a random premium symbol and triggers respins. -
What happens when more than one character lands on a spin?
Their features run consecutively in a fixed order: Maid Marian first, then Little John, then Robin Hood. Marian’s wilds stay on the reels for Robin’s respins, and John’s smash can hand Robin a board already cleared of royals, so the combinations build on each other. -
Does the Robin Hood respin feature have a retrigger?
Yes. If new symbols of the locked type land, they lock too and trigger another respin. Even when none land, Robin Hood may fire arrows again to add one or more of the locked symbol and continue the round. -
Is there a free spins round in Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
No. The game has no scatter and no free spins round; all three features trigger directly in the base game when a character symbol lands. -
What is the maximum win on Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
The calculated maximum multiplier is 1,003x the bet. -
Who makes Robin Hood’s Wild Forest?
Red Tiger. Robin Hood’s Wild Forest’s release date is 14 May 2020.
